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Old Apr 20, 2014, 05:10 PM
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“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

This sums up so well where I am at right now. Stuck between the raging fire and a fall into the enternal abyss. The medicine I've started has done nothing to help me sleep, and the loud ocean roar is back in my head. It takes a month and a half just to get up to the therapudic dose, I don't know if I can last that long. I try to go though the day in denial and keep my mind focused on games or give advice here but in the end the truth is that I can not run away from what a useless pathic creature I am.
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